[resolved] How do I show a full post, NOT an excerpt? (15 posts)

Apologies if this is answered somewhere else but all I can see are topics about how add excerpts or amend the length of them.

As I understand it excerpts are automatically added to new posts but I'd rather have my full post displayed on my blog, or at least have the option to click 'more' to add my own break.

I have tried using the 'how to add excerpts' forum topics to work backwards to remove them, but I cannot see the relevant HTML.

How do I remove the automatic excerpts? Some of my posts are displaying fully (or up to where I'd added a jump-break myself) and I cannot see what I've done differently to them. The only difference I can see is that the ones displayed as excerpts only have a 'More galleries' link afterwards and the full posts say 'Posted in blog' (blog being a link).

Any help would be much appreciated, and in plain English if possible as I don't know HTML! Thank you.

I am not HTML savvy I would like to copy and paste the code to try it but I don't know where to look to insert. I did install the Advanced Excerpts and it does not present an interface to configure it to show the full post. Stuck in a quagmire of technobabble.

Your theme may be using <?php the_excerpt();?> instead of <?php the_content();?> in its template files. Try editing the relevant template file(s) and replacing <?php the_excerpt();?> with <?php the_content();?>

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This comes up on the forum everyday. The featureed image on the full post issue too. I imagine it would be difficult to do a plugin that addressed these issues or there would be one by now. I haven't found any so far and I look all the time.